When the New World Comes for Me
WhovianPastor
They come in the night.They come in the quiet.They come in the shifting of laws, in the stillness, in the dark.With hands folded in prayer and lips curled in claws.…
LGBTQIA+
“Through the Storm, Through the Sun”; a spoken word about love
They tell you love is beautiful,that it glows like city lights on a quiet night,that it feels like warm hands on cold skin,like laughter spilling over candlelit dinners,like the perfect…
“We Stand”
When the world tilts toward shadows,and whispers of hate grow louder,we stand.We stand where love demands to be heard,where truth shatters chains,where every rainbow is a revolution. They call us…
The Quiet Harm: How Executive Orders Are Wounding the Heart of America
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14166, a directive that has sent shockwaves through the LGBTQ+ community. Titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring…
Children: Unapologetically Ours; A Spoken Word for Today
Listen up. They told us to quiet down.To fold ourselves into corners.To soften our edges, straighten our curves,and blend into the walls. But we don’t shrink.We expand.We take up space,and…
Both, And All: A spoken word about identity and love
Why choose?Why let the world box me in with their “either/or”?Why dim my light to fit their grayscale worldWhen my heart beats in colors they’ve never even named? I am…
Threads of Grace: A Spoken Word of Queerness and Christianity
I stand here, a paradox,A tapestry woven with threads of faith and pride.The church doors once loomed like gates,Heavy with whispers,Stained glass splintered by misinterpretation,And yet, here I am. They…
Being Queer and Christian in the 21st Century: Embracing the Tension and the Hope
To be queer and Christian in the 21st century is to live in a space of profound tension and, simultaneously, transformative hope. For many, these identities seem mutually exclusive—a claim…